Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2007

Invited Talk.- Contracts for BIP: Hierarchical Interaction Models for Compositional Verification.- Technical Session 1. Message Sequence Charts and SDL.- Thread-Based Analysis of Sequence Diagrams.- Recovering Repetitive Sub-functions from Observations.- Specification of Timed EFSM Fault Models in SDL.- Technical Session 2. Concurrency.- Coordination Via Types in an Event-Based Framework.- Exploring the Connection of Choreography and Orchestration with Exception Handling and Finalization/Compensation.- Towards Modal Logic Formalization of Role-Based Access Control with Object Classes.- Technical Session 3. Model Programs.- State Isomorphism in Model Programs with Abstract Data Structures.- Composition of Model Programs.- Technical Session 4. Theory.- New Bisimulation Semantics for Distributed Systems.- Event Correlation with Boxed Pomsets.- A Simple Positive Flows Computation Algorithm for a Large Subclass of Colored Nets.- Technical Session 5. Verification.- Improvements for the Symbolic Verification of Timed Automata.- The DHCP Failover Protocol: A Formal Perspective.- Verifying Erlang/OTP Components in ?CRL.- Technical Session 6. Model Checking.- Formal Analysis of Publish-Subscribe Systems by Probabilistic Timed Automata.- Testing Distributed Systems Through Symbolic Model Checking.- An Incremental and Modular Technique for Checking LTL?X Properties of Petri Nets.- Technical Session 7. Requirements and QoS.- Identifying Acceptable Common Proposals for Handling Inconsistent Software Requirements.- Formalization of Network Quality-of-Service Requirements.- Technical Session 8. Components.- Robustness in Interaction Systems.- Transactional Reduction of Component Compositions.- Specifying and Composing Interaction Protocols for Service-Oriented System Modelling.